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butut

[ boo-toot ]

noun

, plural bu·tut, bu·tuts.
  1. a bronze coin of The Gambia, one 100th of a dalasi.


butut

/ bʊˈtʊt /

noun

  1. a Gambian monetary unit worth one hundredth of a dalasi


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Word History and Origins

Origin of butut1

First recorded in 1970–75; from Wolof butuut, literally, “something small, the small one,” from tuuti “to be small”

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